Author: Rebecca Dunham KartaliaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Slagel Trails and Descendants of Jacob Slagle (ca 1740s-1800, in VA)
Author: Rebecca Dunham KartaliaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Everton's Genealogical Helper
Author: The Bowser family history
Author: Addison Bartholomew BowserPublisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County Pennsylvania
Author: John Woolf JordanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fayette County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
A Historical Sketch of the Shuford Family
Author: Julius H. ShufordPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015701212
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Vocational Educator
Author: The Scotch-Irish
Author: James G. LeyburnPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807842591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to Northern Ireland and the action of their residence in that region upon their outlook on life; and their successive migrations to America, where they settled especially in the back-country of Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, and then after the Revolutionary War were in the van of pioneers to the west.
History of York County, Pennsylvania
Author: George Reeser ProwellPublisher:
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Category : York County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
Book Description
Ohio and Its People
Author: George W. KnepperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
In 1989, when Ohio and Its People was first published, the state was still reeling from severe economic blows. Now its economy is resurgent. Its cities have made great progress in renewing portions of their downtowns and, in some cases, their neighborhoods.
THE TREES
Author: Conrad RichterPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0804150990
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
“They moved along in the bobbing, springy gait of a family that followed the woods as some families follow the sea.” In that first sentence Conrad Richter sets the mood of this magnificent epic of the American wilderness. Toward the close of the eighteenth century the land west of the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio river was an unbroken sea of trees. Beneath them the forest trails were dark, silent, and lonely, brightened only by a few lost beams of sunlight. Here the Lucketts, a wild, woodsfaring family, lived their roaming life, pushing ever westward as the frontier advanced and as new settlements threatened their isolation. Richter has written, not a historical novel, of which there are so many, but a novel of authentic early American life, of which there are so few. It is the primitive story of Worth Luckett, the hunter, and of Jary, his woman; of Genny, Wyitt, Achsa, and Sulie, their woods-wild children; of the bound boy and the Solitary and Jake Tench; but principally of the oldest girl, Sayward Luckett, whos people as far back as she knew had always been hunters and gunsmiths to hunters, but who, through the quiet, growing, and yet tragic oppression of the trees, turns her back at last on her life as a hunter’s child and becomes a tiller of the soil. This novel of great lyrical beauty and high excitement tells the story of the transition of American pioneers from the ways of the wilderness to the ways of civilization. Here is the true American epic. Here is the raw adventure, swift and cruel in its episodes; but here too is the poetry of loneliness. Here is a portrait of frontier life as it really must have seemed to the pioneers. Here in short is a masterpiece by the man who gave us The Sea of Grass.